Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...the standard for courage and constancy, would first support Hillary, then switch to Barack Obama. For Hillary, observed an NPR commentator about this latest "battle of Selma," it's "almost like...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...the lowest prices and selected with unusual care. His LADIES' DRESS GOODS are of the latest and best styles, and purchased with a view to economy, beauty, and elegance." Although...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...in Missouri, the percentages are much higher. Donald Harington characterizes such back-to-the-land Ozarkers as similar to earlier homesteaders: Elsewhere in Arkansas the latest blooming hippies have all cleaned up and...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...who want to study the changing nature of the US slave economy. Screenshot from North Carolina Runaway Slave database. This database is one of the latest additions to digital resources...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...Depot Street, and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, recently issued by Pitt Poetry Series. Pratt's latest book, The Dirt She Ate is described by the New York...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...(the latest available data), The median school district with lower rates of extreme child poverty (below 5 percent) had $6,152 more for educating each student—76 percent more funding—than the median...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
The Mere Region by Robert Jackson A critical review of some of T.S. Eliot's narrowly ideological invocations of region encourages us to clarify and redefine the term, for Eliot's own...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...A guest book contains testimonies of the latest Virginians: “My family is from the southernmost island of the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago,” “My family came from the Mayflower from England,”...
Residues of Border Control
...each student marked their journey from their home country to Durham, North Carolina with string. The writing was done by Guillermina Flores Godinez. According to the latest census data, among...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., James C. Kelly, and Chandra Manning. Informed and enriched by the latest scholarship on the Civil War, this exhibition brings together the soldiers' and the civilians'...